Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!marantz From: marantz@aramis.rutgers.edu (Roy Marantz) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: question about liteitem.ps Message-ID: Date: 7 Apr 88 00:00:00 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 17 I'm trying to define items (ala liteitem) that are "self-sizing". By that I mean I want to define some part of the item (say a label) and have the rest of the item scale itself appropriately. Anyway I tried to get TextItem to behave this way and have had no luck. Does anyone understand enough about how TextItem works to give me some clues? I hoped that issuing a "/reshape self send" in the right place would cause a TextItem to redo its shape, but this doesn't seem to work. TextItem /reshape created a /new LiteText object each time it is called and this makes it "context sensitive". Any ideas? Can anyone explain the linkage between a TextItem and LiteText, LabeledItem, and Item? There is alot of context that is not documented and the code seems alittle obscure. What else is new :-) Thanks for any help or pointers. Roy -- uucp: {ames, cbosgd, harvard, moss}!aramis.rutgers.edu!marantz arpa: marantz@aramis.rutgers.edu